Edwin Alemany faces murder rap today

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DA details horrendous attacks on pair

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Thursday, August 15, 2013

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A trail of blood, an elbow tattoo and a picture in a photo lineup all tied Edwin Alemany — the suspected killer of 24-year-old Amy Lord — to two other violent ambushes on women in South Boston last month, prosecutors said yesterday.

Alemany, arraigned yesterday on charges including assault with intent to murder, left a trail of blood that stretched half a block from the July 24 multiple stabbing of a 21-year-old woman on Gates Street, prosecutor John P. Pappas said. Investigators recovered DNA from that blood trail and from the victim’s shirt, he said, and video from a private residence showed a man with ink “consistent with a tattoo that Mr. Alemany has on his right elbow” about the time of the 12:15 a.m. attack.

Alemany was arrested later that day after he showed up at Tufts Medical Center with a hand injury, prosecutors said. Police then showed his photograph to the victim of a July 23 street assault on Old Colony Avenue. Pappas said Alemany punched the 22-year-old woman in the face, dragged her by the legs into a parking lot and told her “I’m not robbing you. I’m going to kill you” during the 4:15 a.m. attack.

The victim identified Alemany from a photo lineup, prosecutors said.

Alemany, 28, was found competent to stand trial after a 20-day mental evaluation at Bridgewater State Hospital. He pleaded not guilty and was held on $3 million bail. He will be arraigned today in West Roxbury District Court on charges he kidnapped and savagely murdered Lord on July 23, about an hour after the Old Colony Avenue attack. Her body was found stabbed and strangled at Stony Brook Reservation in Hyde Park.

Alemany has a long history of arrests and mental health problems. His lawyer, Jeffrey Denner, said he questions whether the Massachusetts mental health care system “functioned in a way that protected him and protected the public. His mental health history was not a mystery to the commonwealth of Massachusetts.”